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A Hint To Housekeepers

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
July
Year
1882
Copyright
Public Domain
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One of the most important features about housekeeping is airing and purifying the bedrooms. Before putting the rooms in order of moruings, the beds should be stripped, and the clothing left hanging, for full üfteen minutes, if not longer, in front of an open door or window, immediately ík a draught, while the mattress or bed is left to air also. There is so much impurity of the body passing off through the pores of the skin during the niglit that we cannot be too particular as to this. In damp, cloudy wnather, it would be well, both in winter and summer, to kindie a quick blaze in the fireplace, if only to last for a few moments. The air of a bed room should be kept perfectly pure ; no odor, either sweet or otherwise, should be pertnitted - not even a boquet of fragraut flo wers should be left in a room over night, for as it withers the smell becomes oppressive to the lungs, and on getting up one will feel languid and dull. It is not good to get out of bed toa suddenly after awaking, as it excites the nerves, and takes hours to get over it. One should be careful not to spend a night n a bed-room that has been closed up for some time ; besides the impurity of the air, there is greut danger of etywiga in such rooms,

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat